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The Dollmaker
Novelist and short-story writer, NICCOLO TUCCI is a native of Florence who has been living in the United States since 1938 and who is now an American citizen. He has written articles about Itay for the Atlantic on his return visits to the old country, and he is presently working on two novels, one in English about an Indian family and one in Indian about some New Yorkers.
The Meanest Man in Washington County
A Houston lawyer and a native Texan who served with distinction under Secretary of War Stimson, DILLON ANDERSON has returned to Washington to succeed Robert Cutler as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. On trains and on Sundays he amuses himself by writing a series of salty Texas narratives about two wanderers, Clint and Claudie, who fortunately do not take themselves or their victims too seriously. The stories have been collected in two volumes: I and Claudie (1951) and Claudie’s Kinfolks (1954).
The Smell of Lilies
An American novelist and short-story writer who feels happiest when working abroad, MARTHA GELLHORN wrote her first novel in Paris at the age of twenty-three. As a foreign correspondent she covered the Civil War in Spain; Munich; Czechoslovakia; Finland; and the war in China before Pearl Harbor. London was most frequently her headquarters during the Second World War, and there she makes her home today.
The Credit Line
A veteran who served in the Infantry in Italy daring World War II, RICHARD YOUNG THURMAN is a graduate of Utah State Agricultural College, For the past three years he has been doing editorial work for a trade magazine and he is now living in Seattle, Washington. This story of the trials and tribulations of a bill collector marks Mr. Thurman’s first appearance in the Atlantic.
Terry Bindle
An engineer who studied at Harvard and the University of Tulsa, JOSEPH wHITEHILL two years ago turned to full-time writing. Moved by his Navy memories and by his respect for the work of Joseph Conrad, Mr. Whitehill wrote a sea story called “Able Baker’ which won an Atlantic '"’First" award and was reprinted in the 0. Henry Prize Stories, 1956. The following narrative is another high point in the life of Able Baker.
My Vocation
Novelist and short-story writer, MARY LAVIN, although born in Massachusetts, has spent most of her life in Ireland. I protégée of Lord Dunsany, she turned to the Atlantic with her stories which, when published under the title Tales from Bective Bridge, were awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her first novel, The House in Clewe Street, was serialized in our columns,and her second, Mary O’Grady, was published in 1950.